We Are All Made of Glue by Marina Lewycka

Lewycka's fusion of Holocaust drama and knockabout comedy makes for uneasy reading, says Olivia Lang

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire by Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair's walking tour of London E8 is enlivened by the remarkable eccentrics he meets, says Tim Adams

Jon McGregor's account of the aftermath of the death of a low-life drunk plays with form and language to daring degrees, writes Edmund Gordon

Cable's mission is to explain the financial crisis, not to blame. His book is all the better for that, says Rafael Behr

There's still a powerful case to be made for women's rights, says Rachel Cooke, but this book isn't quite up to it

Civilisation started with bread and cheese. Tim Radford reviews Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

Peter Preston celebrates the talents and passion of the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya

Edmund White on a memoir that captures all the elements that made New York in the 1970s so exciting

Turn-of-the-century Vienna is the setting for Max Ophüls’ wonderful melodrama adapted from a Stefan Zweig novella

Conor Gearty praises the wise judgments of Tom Bingham, one of our greatest crusading judges

This accomplished debut novel explores what happens when memory can no longer be relied on, says Olivia Laing

A biography of Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper and Warren Beatty is great fun, if a little light, says Viola Fort

Sophie Missing enjoys the 'definitive haunted house story'

Mark Thomas is a funny man. Shame he doesn't know when to stop, writes Miranda Sawyer

This modernised take on the Alice in Wonderland story struggles to justify itself, says Peter Bradshaw